3rd Duke of York Richard Plantagenet

1411 - 1460  (49 years)

• Name	Richard Plantagenet  [1, 2, 3]
  Title	3rd Duke of York
  Birth	21 Sep 1411  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Military - Old World	His conflicts with Henry's queen, Margaret of Anjou, and other members of Henry's court were a leading factor in the political upheaval of mid-fifteenth-century England, and a major cause of the Wars of the Roses
  Title	6th Earl of March, 4th Earl of Cambridge, and 8th Earl of Ulster
  Death	31 Dec 1460	Wakefield, Yorkshire, England   [1, 3]
  	Killed in the Battle of Wakefield
  Person ID	I9573	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Richard Plantagenet,   b. Sep 1376, Yorkshire, England d. 5 Aug 1415, Southampton, Hampshire, England (Age 38 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anne Mortimer,   b. 27 Dec 1390, Meath County, Ireland d. Sep 1411, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England (Age 20 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2973	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Duchess of York Lady Cecily de Neville,   b. 31 May 1415, Durham, England d. 31 May 1495, Hertfordshire, England (Age 80 years)
  Marriage Contract	1424
  	When Cecily was nine years old, she was betrothed by her father to his thirteen-year-old ward, Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
  Marriage	18 Oct 1429	Yorkshire, England   [1]
  Marriage End	1460
  	Death of Richard in Battle
  Children	1. King of England Richard Plantagenet, III,   b. 2 Oct 1452, Northamptonshire, England d. 22 Aug 1485, Leicestershire, England (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Knight of the order of the Garter -- 1st Duke of Clarence, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Warwick Sir George Plantagenet, KG,   b. 21 Oct 1449, Dublin, Ireland d. 18 Feb 1477, Tower of London, London, England (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. King of England Edward Plantagenet, IV,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster, London, England (Age 40 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3321	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 18 Oct 1429 - Yorkshire, England Death - 31 Dec 1460 - Wakefield, Yorkshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Places

  Church Window of Richard Plantagenet (3rd Duke of York) St. Laurence's Church in Ludlow, England http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Plantagenet,_3rd_Duke_of_York.jpg

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Richard Plantagenet http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-174749627&indiv=try [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for King of England Edward Plantagenet http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=42010149423&indiv=try [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Cecily Neville http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-475496472&indiv=try